night turns to day
though I have not slept.
Stars in the heavens
Disappearing

Cold, lonely night
Alone in the dark
Endless time and thought
Waiting for light

‘Till with the sun’s
warm touch upon me
darkness hides away
I close my eyes

At last.

I guess if you’re a teacher, new venues may always be intimidating; at least that’s true for me.  But once you get going, all the fears just kind of fall off and you do what you always do; Teach.  The kids were good, and the class was good.  Overall it was a pretty fun couple of house (2 classes). I teach again on Wednesday so hopefully it goes well again. Cross your fingers for me.

Kevin had swim lessons with mommy. There are some fun pictures on Catherine’s blog that show Kevin jumping off the diving board. He’s my little dare devil. Now he asks every day to go swimming so we’ve used his little blow up pool a few times in the back yard.

This weekend is the beginning of the Wardle family vacation as well. Saunya, my big sister, is coming in town with her family. She hasn’t seen our house in over two years, and that was a 6 hour rest stop for them on their way to Oregon.  Then we’re heading to a cabin with my entire side of the family (all 36 of us) from my parents down.  We’re going to spend an entire week there just playing around. It should be lots of fun.

Finally we’re still trying to sell our home here in Idaho (anyone interested?) so we can move to Oklahoma. One way or another we’re going, but it would be nice to get this one sold and move in directly to a house out there instead of having to rent.  With the housing market like it is, not too many people are looking but two came through in the last few days so hopefully someone will put an offer on it soon.

Oklahoma is going to be interesting. When are we moving? I don’t know! Where are we moving? I don’t know. I do know classes begin August 18th, so I’d better figure all this out, and soon. Catherine and I are still really excited to go to Oklahoma and do my degree.  It’s all the detail stuff we’re not sure about. Wish us luck!

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Right now I’m proctoring my students as they take a test in Spanish class. Yeah for me! Really my problem is that I’m checked out mentally. I wasn’t even like this my senior year of high school.  I’m just so excited to go to Oklahoma State and work on my PhD I just want to pack up the house and go.  I am trying hard though to finish out what needs to be done.

The house is a whole other story though.  We dropped the price of the house, but that was a week and a half ago and no one has been through the house in that time. I’m really worried that we won’t be able to sell the house in time before we need to move. I really can’t afford to be paying on this house and not have a full time job.

On another note, the boys are being really fun right now. Cameron is crawling better and better every day. Though he never really moves much at a time, if you look away he’ll all of a sudden be on the opposite side of the room.  He’s like superman; pretends to be slow until you look away. Kevin is learning more and more everyday, and asks lots of questions.      - “Dad, what’s that?”  - A screwdriver  - “Oh, a screwdriver!”

It’s adorable. He asks Catherine and I questions he knows about as well. Like asking us what colors things are, or what letter that is.  He loves to see signs around town and point out letters in the signs. “Look daddy, a A”. It’s all adorable.

Catherine and I planted part of the garden this last week. We started early, and our plants got too big for our green house and most ended up dying. We planted what was left over and need to plant some more stuff as well. Lots of corn. I’m not sure we’ll get to eat any of it, but at least it makes us happy. Catherine loves to garden, or anything else emergency preparedness wise, so it’s at least fun.